Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a brief review of the day’s events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
-National Assembly (NA) General Secretary and Chairman of theNA Office Bui Van Cuong chaired a press conference in Hanoi on October 19,announcing the expected schedule and agenda for the upcoming 6th plenarysession.
The session will convene at the NA House inHanoi on November 23. It will be held in two stages, with the first lastinguntil November 10 and the second from November 20 to 28.Read full text
President Vo Van Thuong (L) meets Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member the Committee’s Secretariat and Chief of the Committee’s Office, in Beijing on October 19 (Photo: VNA) -President of Vietnam Vo Van Thuong met with Cai Qi, memberof the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party ofChina (CPC) Central Committee, member the Committee’s Secretariat and Chief ofthe Committee’s Office, in Beijing on October 19.
The two sides applauded the progress in therelations between the two Parties and the two countries, especially since thehistoric official visit to China by General Secretary of the Communist Party ofVietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong in late October 2022, as seenin frequent all-level delegation exchanges and meetings, many new and importantachievements obtained, enhanced political trust, promoted economic and tradecooperation, and Chinese investment in Vietnam reaching a new level.Read full text
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on October 19visited the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Headquarters, met GCC SecretaryGeneral Jassim Muhammad Al-Budaiwi and witnessed the signing ceremony of aMemorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the Ministry of ForeignAffairs of Vietnam and the GCC Secretariat as part of his trip to the MiddleEast nation to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – GCC(ASEAN-GCC) summit.Read full text
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) receives Governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) Al-Rumayya (Photo: VNA) The same day, PM Chinh received Governor of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) ofSaudi Arabia – one among the world’s 10 biggest public investment funds. He proposedthat the fund expand and diversify investment activities in Vietnam's priorityareas such as digital transformation, green economy, circular economy,innovation, renewable energy, high technology, tourism and Halal industry.Read full text
-The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism andSaudi Arabia’s Ministry of Tourism signed an action programme to boost the twocountries’ tourism cooperation in Riyadh on October 19.
The signing was made within the framework of theongoing visit to Saudi Arabia of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.Read full text
-AVietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Public Security SeniorLieutenant General Luong Tam Quang attended the Singapore International CyberSecurity Week 2023 (SICW 2023) and the 8th ASEAN Ministerial Conference onCyber Security (AMCC-8) in Singapore from October 16-19.
At the AMCC-8, Deputy Minister Quang shared Vietnam's viewpoint on current andemerging threats to the digital environment and cyberspace in an importantspeech, contributing to the conference’s theme "Regional efforts infighting existing and emerging threats in cyberspace and technology".Read full text
-Atotal of 59,559 businesses entered and re-entered the real estate market in thethird quarter of 2023, a record number for the period, which represented a riseof 18% year on year, according to head of the Ministry of Construction (MoC)’sOffice Dau Minh Thanh.
Thanh attributed the result to the Government,ministries and sectors’ efforts to remove difficulties for the real estatesector.Read full text
-Foreign service providers paid more than 9 trillion VND (367.15 million USD)in tax through the online portal serving taxpayers engaging in e-commerce andbusiness activities in the first nine months of this year, according to theGeneral Department of Taxation.
The department said that the amount was paid by62 foreign service suppliers, including the tech giants Facebook, Google,Microsoft, TikTok, Netfix, Apple. Thus, Vietnam is one of the four pioneeringcountries in ASEAN to collect tax from these foreign service providers.Read full text
-COVID-19 is no longer an infectious disease in Group A but downgraded to GroupB from October 20, according to a decision issued on October 19 by the Ministryof Health (MoH).
With the downgrade, based on Point b of Clause 1and Clause 2 of Article 3 in the 2007 Law on Prevention and Control ofInfectious Diseases, COVID-19 prevention and control activities will be carriedout in line with the regulations on Group B ones.Read full text/.
